Bitcoin Consensus Rules

This chapter introduces Bitcoin Consensus Rules.

What Are Bitcoin Consensus Rules

Controlled Supply Rule - Total of 21M BTC

Mining Reward Rule - Start with 50 BTC

Proof of Work Rule - Find a Small Hash Value

Takeaways:

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of Bitcoin

 Bitcoin Blockchain

 Bitcoin Wallet

 Bitcoin Core

 Bitcoin Transaction

 Bitcoin-Qt - Bitcoin Core GUI

 Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin Consensus Rules

 Bitcoin Block Data Structure

 Bitcoin Transaction Data Structure

 Bitcoin Blockchain APIs

 Copay - Bitcoin Wallet

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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